John Misto‚ playwright of the Shoe-Horn Sonata has clearly brought forward the women’s story to the audience. Shoe-Horn is a very powerful Australian play that seeks to commemorate the endurance and heroic struggle of women interned in Japanese POW camps during World War II. Misto achieves this through a combination of dramatic techniques‚ themes‚ characterisation and settings making the past vivid and understandable. The characters presented in the Shoe-Horn Sonata are fictional‚ but the events
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effective visual impacts in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and ONE other related text of your own choosing? Prescribed Text: The Shoe-Horn Sonata Related Text: The Truman Show The utilization of elements used by John Misto in The Shoe-Horn Sonata and Peter Weir in The Truman Show help the audiences create distinctive and effective visual images. The elements used are Projected Images‚ Symbolism‚ Use of Interviewers‚ Sense of truth / Overcoming adversity‚ and metaphors. Both texts are distinctly visual which
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fact that the purpose of a text can often be unnoticed and misinterpreted by the viewer. Many people only have a limited world experience‚ and it’s the Distinctly Visual feature of a text which allows the viewer to gain a better understanding. Distinctly Visual texts use a combination of techniques to create and shape an audience’s point of view or interpretation‚ and visualising a text requires the responder to interpret all of the images presented. The text Shoe-Horn Sonata by John Misto first appears
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Distinctively visual texts are texts that allow the audience to create an image within their mind‚ using an array of language and visual techniques. Henry Lawson‚ an Australian bushman and author of the late nineteenth century‚ demonstrates the experiences of bush life through his numerous short stories. Other texts however‚ like a photograph or a painting‚ create an image or a scene in the viewers’ mind to demonstrate particular experiences expressed within the text. Frederick McCubbin‚ also from
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distinctively visual elements allows responders to interpret and create meaning from otherwise complex concepts. John Misto’s play ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ and Mike Subritzky’s poem ‘Sister’ both challenges the audience’s interpretation of the traumatic experiences of war. Through a range of distinctly visual techniques both composers help create an understanding of the power of time and the human spirit as overcoming adversity of war. As Misto’s The Shoe Horn Sonata develops‚ the distinctly visual stage
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of friendship between the two women‚ a reoccurring theme within the play‚ and their shared caramel provides a powerful image in our minds of the deprivation they endured‚ but also of the tenacity‚ hope and friendship they clung to. Distinctively Visual Elements of the Scene • Caramel is symbolic because it symbolizes hope and survival of the girls. This shows that the caramel is the only luxury that they have in the camp. • The male choir is symbolic of strength and self-determination because
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The play “Shoe horn sonata” written by Misto creates and manipulates images that challenge the audience’s beliefs and attitudes. This is shown throughout the techniques. Other examples of this are also shown through the movie “Pleasantville” by Garry Ross and the song “across the universe” by the Beatles. The Beatles song “Across the universe”‚ chosen words and lyrics helps identify the emotion that is being portrayed and also may give a visual image from the thoughts that are felt through the
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Distinctly Essay A distinctively visual text influences our view of the world‚ and object or a person by the composer presenting us with new ideas and emotions that let us see from another point of view. Henry Lawson is an Australian writer that has the ability to twist his readers into his stories so they understand the true feelings and emotions of the characters. He presents us with the idea the bush is a negative place to live. But all Australians have a connection with it. Distinctly visual
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Henry Lawson & Distinctly visual. Context: Much of Lawson’s work was set in the Australian bush or was about bush life. His characters reflect his personal experiences of the world during his time‚ focusing on ’real’ characters who are down on their luck‚ women‚ children and roving workers. At the time the bush somehow fascinated people because of its overall harshness and the people that survived there. Lawson was from the bush‚ was brought up in bush poverty and suffered the hardships and
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Anastasia Gryllis Related Material #1 Pierce the Veil - Caraphernelia My first chosen related material for Distinctively Visual is a song and Video clip by Pierce the Veil called ‘Caraphernelia’. In the song‚ the composer uses techniques such as juxtaposition‚ metaphors and other images to convey distinctively visual‚ through the lyrics and video clip. Caraphernelia described in the urban dictionary is ‘a broken-heart disease‚ whenever someone leaves you but leaves all their things behind
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